THROUGH Our EXCHANGES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 82, 14 April 1913, Page 7

THROUGH Our EXCHANGES.

direct telephone wire between Auckland and ..'Wellington is .-now in, operation. Splendid results lyekie obtained recently at a. test conversation, Tho speakers’.‘voices sounded no furtlier away than if they were converse Mg on the telephone between Wellington and Petone, t . Colds being always dangerous, it is best to get rid of them at once. Tonking’s Linseed Emulsion is infallible.x The appointment of a dog-tax collector has apparently been a profitable one for the Borough of Timaru. Before such an appointment was made the Borough Council received between £SO and £Gt) a year from the dog tax; this year it has received £2OO from it, and the salary of the collector is £4O. For influenza take Woods’ Great Pep. permint Cure. Never fails Is Gd, 2s Gd The mystery in connection with the penguin which was shot on tho beach at Kingston a fortnight ago lias been cleared up (says the Wakatipu Mail). The bird was sent from Dunedin and was put iu charge of Messrs Mackenzie Bros., of Walter Peak, from which it subsequently escaped, making its way down to Kingston, where it met its fate. Two Guineas for four lines of poetry! Read Tonkiug’s Linseed Emulsion intimation every Saturday amongst news. item*. Over 20,000,000 stamps ordered by the United State Government to commemorate the opening of the Panama .Canal have been withdrawn owing to an error. Instead of a view of the Gatun Locks, the picture when printed was found to be that of the San Pedro Miguel Rocks, with the name of the Gotnn Rocks printed below. A new stamp with the picture unaltered but with the new words “Panama Canal” has been issued. Advices received by the Federal Minister of Customs through the High Commissioner state that the first ship- ' meiit of Australian frozen meat to Germany arrived in a satisfactory condition, and met with a ready sale. The moat was sold in a hall at Wilmersdorf by employees of the corporation. it was generally agreed that it Imd not suffered in transport. Australian frozen moat has been introduced also in Karlsruhe and other German towns with good results. Sir George Reid describes the prospects of increasing trade with the Commonwealth as very bright.